After six years of construction, LaGuardia Airport in Queens, NY, finalized its new 1.3 million-square-foot Terminal B in 2022 as part of a comprehensive upgrade plan. With passenger safety a priority, the updated terminal presented an opportunity to reimagine its communications, and the airport’s team of engineers, architects and audiovisual consultants turned to a company and technology it had extensive experience with: AtlasIED and its GLOBALCOM communications platform.
Since 2016, LaGuardia Airport has been using AtlasIED GLOBALCOM to provide communications throughout its existing terminals. While GLOBALCOM was already tried and tested at LaGuardia, the Port Authority needed to ensure it designed the new Terminal B audio system to specific code requirements for speech intelligibility and audibility. Early in the project, it sought the help of the acoustical consultant firm of Cerami & Associates to model the acoustics in the facility well before the first passengers walked the concourse.
